The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20


latter is eighteen years old and has one
thousand wives.
THE Pope has decided the question of the
Knights of Labor in favor of that organiZa-
ton. This decision will stand as long as
the present methods pursued in furthering
their aims prevail.
Mr.. CHAMBERLrN is making a tour of
Scotland in the interest of the coercion bill.
His speeches are so violent as to arouse a
strong feeling, and he has been threatened
with assassination.
THE railroad commissioner of Maine says
there are no advantages to be derived to
that state by the interstate commerce law,
but that there will be injury to its commerce
and trade in general
THE interstate commerce commission de-
cline to interfere in favor of theatrical peo-
pie. The principal business interests of the
Pacific coast have petitioned for the suspen-
sion of the long-haul clause.
The house of man named Browles at
Lynchburg, Va, was destroyed by fire Sun
day night in which two of his daughters,
aged nineteen and twenty-one years, were
burned to death and three other persons
fatally injured
A HOTEL in the city of Amsterdam, Hol-
land which was crowded with guests who
came to Join in the festivities in honor of
the kings birthday, caught fire last week
Thursday night and was entirely destroyed.
MANY of the Pan Handle road robbers
have made confessions. II. G. Bushby,
who escaped from the officers at Demning-
ton, Ohio, by jumping from the train, has
been recaptured. He Is ringleader in the
band of robbers and his arrest is important,
AT Joint meeting of the trunk line and
central traffic passenger agents in Chicago
it was agreed to grant excursion rates to
parties of fifty and over on the certificate
nj M a plpruVppn no
given, nor special rates to theatrical parties.
FIFTEEN persons were burned to death by
the prairie fires which, starting near Nicode-
mus, Graham county, Kansas have swept
northwest on an air line into Norton county,
destroying everything in path that in
places was from two and one-half to seven
miles wide.
The English steamer Tasmania" run
ming between Bombay and Marseiles, was
wrecked Sunday night on the Island of
Corsica. Seventy-four passengers have been
safely landed and one hundred six remain.
Two French steamers are at hand, assisting
in the rescue.
THE Jury in the case of John Avensdorf,
charged with the murder of Rev. George G.
Haddock, the prohibition advocate, at Sioux
City. Iowa, disagreed. They stood one for
conviction and eleven for acquittal. 1t is
now claimed that it was in the main
whiskey-soaked jury.
WAR is raging in Afghanistan. The Rus
SLAMS are reported moving on Quefcar
one hundred forty miles from Herat. The
! rebellion against the Ameer is spreading
| The Ameer's troops killed two hundred
rebels in night attack Five villages have
! been burned and numerous tribes are
joining the Ghilzai rebels. The outlook is
| black
ONE effect of the interstate commerce law
has been to increase greatly the printing
| lie of ri 1Nua nj nc Ihn M
ager of one of the large printing houses of
Chicago said that a rough estimate of the
average cost for the printing required by
the new law showed that it would be S25,-
900 for each road, which gives a total of
| S24, 100000 for the nine hundred eighty
railroads in the country.
THE Tribune has details of the case of
Mrs. Albers of New Orleans, a lady being
treated for quick consumption in Phila-
| delphia by the process of Professor Bergen
of Lyons France. This consists of iecting
carbonic acid and sulphurated hydrogen
gases Her death was expected in month,
| but two weeks treatment has increased the
patients weight three pounds, half reduced
the fever and is producing marvellous results.
A TREMENDOUS sensation was produced
in London Monday by the publication of a
letter ostensibly from Parnell written to
| the Phoenix Park murderers years ago. II
genuine, it would support the charge in
|
leaders were associates of the murderers
All evening papers declare it very serious
matter, but say il should be received with
caution. The Parnellites denounce it as
forgery.
On Saturday Standard oil pipe under
the North river burst at Seventeen street
Goals from a lighter set fire to the floating
oil. The flames destroyed freight pier OF
the New York Central railroad, coal dock
a half dozen lighters, the barge Baltimore
and the crib work from Sixty-seventh tC
Seventy-third street. The scene was never
equaled in the history of fire-fighting in the
city The loss is fully 500, 900 all on the
Central railroad.
In the course of the coercion debate in the
house of commons, Friday night, Major
Saunderson made one of his violent speeches
which so aroused the blood of the Parnell.
ties that Messrs. Healy, Redmund and Sex
ton gave him the lie direct Healy was sus
pended and left the house. The speaker
broadly intimated his sympathy with the
Irish members, and the tenor of the report
leads to the belief that at the next sitting
Mr.. Healy will be recalled with acclaim.
ACCOUNTS of the reported identification O
the murdered girl at Railway, n. j., are
somewhat confusing. One dispatch says
the body has been identified as that of Ans
Christine Larsen, a Danish girl, who arrived
at New York from Copenhagen March 9, il
quest of former lover and another dis
patch says she has been positively identi
fled by sister as Mary Dorman, who lief
Scotland about four weeks ago to come tC
America, but had not put in an appearance
EIGHTEEN miles west of Sioux Falls
Dakota, tremendous fire started anC
swept the country for miles. Henry Strallen
George Fuller, John jacobson and p. NJ
Hall lost their houses and contents anC
also their barns, farm machinery, grain
stock and several horses. James Hutcbin
son, G. T.. Greenan, w. S. Brooks, Will
lam Igo and Edward Walker lost thei
barns and contents. 1t was the most de
structive fire that ever visited that part o
the country, and the total loss will exceed
100000.
A FRIGHTFUL cyclone passed over thu
West Virginia Pan Handle (the first eve
witnessed in that part of the country las
Friday. 1t wrought terrible devastation il
the country extending from st. Clairsville
Ohio, ten miles west of Wheeling, TO poin
as far east as that city. Little damage wa
done at Wheeling on account of the higl
hills surrounding, but at st. Clairsville an,
Martins Ferry hundreds of houses wer
destroyed or damaged and many people in
jured. The loss in these two villages will
be nearly half million. News continually
comes in of additional damage in the countr
and it is safe to say the aggregate loss viii
, exceed 81 100000
, A FIRE in st. Augustine, Fla, last weel
Monday, destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty. 1t broke out at fifteen minutes pas
three A. NJ. in the st. Augustine Hotel
large wooden structure, which was burned
together with the old Cathedral, First Ma
tonal Bank, Planters House, Edward